Chapter Summary: Continuing on straight after the last chapter, only this time through Isane's eyes

Isane looked over the field as Unohana brought the last two combatants to Orihime. Rangiku and …Gin? Isane was shocked to see him. "Captain why are…?" her voice trailed away when her Captain met her eyes.

"Because Kurosaki asked it of us, he must have a reason for doing so and after what he has done for us, the least we can do is concede to his wishes until he his fit enough to explain to us."

Isane's gaze went to the orange haired boy who had saved them all. Though boy wasn't really the right word for him now, he was taller than when she had last seen him, but that was not the only change. His hair was longer and his body more muscled, though it was also quite badly damaged. It was like it had been months since she had seen him rather than mere hours. His weapon to, had changed, his Bankai sword seemed fixed to his hand and a long black chain wrapped tightly around his arm. He seemed so different to the boy who she had last seen, and yet so similar, was it just because now he was their saviour.

"Don't you agree Isane?" she was brought out of her thoughts by her Captain's voice, belatedly remembering she had been talking.

"Yes Captain," she answered

"Good," replied Unohana, placing the two she bore down with the others. Orihime immediately extended her shield to cover them. "Isane I want you to stay here and help." Instructed her Captain

"I need to return to the Hospital and assist with those there. Many of those from the battle require my help. I want you to assist Orihime for now and when everyone is stable please bring them to the 4th Division."

"Yes Captain" she repeated and she watched as she flash stepped away. Her eyes were drawn back to the people before her. Of all of them Gin looked the worst hurt, with a huge slash across his chest and numerous other injuries, but it was a close thing; the two Arrancar looked nearly as bad. The blue haired man had a number of wounds to his torso and his right arm was severed above the elbow. The green haired girl also had a number of terrible cuts to her body and her left leg appeared to be crushed, however she seemed to be healing much faster than the others, maybe she had a higher regeneration level. The next worse hurt was Renji his long hair was soaked in blood, most of which was oozing from a deep wound in his shoulder, he had other injuries but that was by far the worst. Rukia too only had one very bad injury amongst many smaller ones. Hers was in her lower abdomen; it appeared as though he had run her through. Maybe Azien had decided to cut them down quickly with one bad hit. They would probably spend some time in the 4th Division before they were fully healed, but she knew both of them had survived worse. The next was Rangiku, though it was hard to tell whether which battle she had sustained the damage from. Kira had told her that Rangiku had run after Gin before he had had a chance to do anything more than stabilise her. She had been in no condition to fight and Isane wondered if she had even actually fought Aizen.

The two humans and seemed to have escaped with the least damage, 'I wonder why that is? They are not the strongest of those present.' The Quincy had damage to his arms and what appeared to be a broken leg, there also looked to be some wounds on his back, judging by the way he lay but not too bad. The young giant was already stirring he seemed to be mumbling something quietly to Orihime. The only obvious injury to him was a slash on his arm. Then he tried to move and she realised what had taken him down, is back had been broken. 'A break in the middle of his back he may never walk again.' Then she was forced to reconsider her thoughts as she watched Orihime the girl seemed calm, if exhausted and she spoke to the boy in a reassuring tone, loud enough for Isane to hear her.

"It alright Chad, it's fixable, it'll take me awhile but I'll heal it" the boy answered but it was still too quiet to hear.

Isane marvelled at Orihimes power. Was there nothing she couldn't heal given time? She felt a prick of jealousy, how many people could she have saved if she had had a power like that. She pushed the feeling aside, it wouldn't do to think like that, and at least her presence her would save people now.

She felt people approaching, turning to meet them she saw Nanao, accompanied by a dozen members of her squad.

"Isane, your Captain asked that I bring some help to assist you in transporting wounded back to 4th Division." Isane felt relived she had been wondering how she would get this many wounded people back.

"Thank you Nanao, well be moving them as soon as Orihime has finished stabilising them. If you could assist me with the kido to keep them stabilised in transport your men can do the lifting."

"They should be alright to move soon," Interrupted Orihime who had apparently been listening, "I can't heal them completely now, but they should be able to be moved as soon as I finish fixing the broken arteries in Grimmjow and Renji."

Isane and Nanao nodded and began setting up stretchers and assigning bearers to each casualty. They spoke softly as they worked.

"How is your captain doing?" inquired Isane

"He'll survive," she answered "He wasn't as badly injured as we feared, although if he doesn't stop hovering he might end up hurting himself more, he isn't resting like he's meant to, he's been by Captain Ukitake's side since he was brought in."

"How is captain Ukitake?"

"Not good, the wound in his chest is bad, hopeful they'll be able to help him, but it was a nasty wound." Isane nodded

"So you're running Squad 8 for now, who's running squad 13?"

"Your sister and the other third seat for now."

"Well at least there's two of them." Isane thought of her sister in charge of a squad and shuddered, she loved her little sister but her exuberance and mentality was not really suited to running a squad, especially with Sentaro around to make her worse. Out loud she said. "What of the other Divisions, there are a lot of injured Captains?"

"I don't know, it not just Captains who are injured there are a lot of people in bad shape. Unless there is an obvious, and healthy officer to step in the divisions seem to ether be following Captain Unohana's orders or the orders of the nearest upright Captain or Lieutenant." She waved a hand and the men who had followed her, "they're not all from my division about half are from tenth or ninth but it such confusion in the Seireitei that everyone's just looking for someone to lead."

Isane nodded thinking over their casualties. "So many people went down in the fight; it'll be a miracle if we don't lose anyone."

"Maybe, but we did better than we could have. A lot more people would have died without the Visoreds assistance." Isane shuddered slightly, she had yet to meet any of the Visoreds officially but she had heard what they were and she had felt their Reiatsu when they had been brought threw the Senkaimon. Logically she knew that they were allies, former captains and lieutenants, but they felt so alien, their energy so like the Espada that it frightened her a bit. Nanao caught the movement,

"They're good people, Aizen used them as experiments and had Urrahara blamed. It's his fault not theirs." Isane looked at her for a moment she hadn't heard that, just that they were Soul Reaper / hollow hybrids like the Arrancar, only the other way around.

"How do you know that?"

"My Captain told me, one of them was the 8th division lieutenant… she used to read to me when I was a child," she paused for a second before continuing "I didn't know what happened to her then, but after the Battle, while they were being healed, she told Captain Kyoraku what happened and he told me." Isane listened quietly and after she finished they worked in silence for a time until Orihime addressed them.

"They can be moved now, there's still a lot to be done but they'll be right until we get back." She brought down her shield, as the men went to take their charges, and tried to stand. Isane noticed that she was swaying and unsteady on her feet. 'Of course, she must be exhausted by now. She healed most of these people back in Hueco Mundo to get them able to fight, and now stabilising this many..." Isane walked up to the girl, catching hold of her arm and steadying her.

"Thank you." She smiled up at her.

"Come on let's get back to the 4th."

It was a slow trip back. They had to be carefully of bumping the patients and the terrain was terrible.

When they finally made it back, Orihime was leaning heavily on her arm, and her movement were becoming sluggish. She was worried for the girl, who had clearly worn herself out with her efforts. As the members of her division came to take charge of the wounded, Isane lowered the exhausted girl into a chair.

""Rest here for a bit Orihime, I'll find a bed for you soon."

"You don't have to." The girl protested "I'm tired not hurt, I'll just rest here for now, there are other who need you more than me."

Isane nodded slowly, she didn't want to leave her like this but Orihime was right, there were dozens of people in need of her attention. "Alright but I'll be back to check on you when I can."

She hurried of down the hallway, heading for the Emergency unit. It was something akin to chaos down there. People rushed to and fro: bringing supplies, organising patients and a million other things. Isane got to work, she was one of the strongest healers in the division and spent the next 4 hours treating the worst hurt from the battle. Cptain Komamura would make it, but he would be in here for a week at least and would have to spend a few months of light duties. Shuei too was badly injured, though he would probably have a shorter recovery time then Cptain Komamura. Tousen had apparently been a vicious enemy to fight. Nanao had been right about Captain Ukataki he was in a horrible state, the wound had gone right through is body, tearing through vital organs and causing massive internal bleeding and he had already lost too much blood, they put him on life support be if it was just up to normal healing he would likely die, when Orihime was rested she would have to ask her if she could aid him. 2nd Division was going to be a mess for a while as both Soifon and Omaeda were here. Captain Soifon wasn't too bad, she had lost an arm and had internal bleeding but she should be okay. Omaeda on the other hand was in terrible shape: he had massive internal injuries and internal bleeding as well as broken bones and contusions. He was also exhausted with barley any spiritual pressure left. If he made it through tonight he would live, but it would be many months before he could return to active duty. Some of the Visored too passed through her hands, she wasn't afraid of them now. It was hard to be afraid of someone who was struggling to breathe. The girl with the green hair had a collapsed lung and broken ribs alone with many other injuries. A tall man with close cropped white hair kept trying to sit with her despite his own injuries, he really should have been in bed, maybe even in intensive care, from the way his shoulder hunched and his arm hung limp, it was dislocated at best, probably shattered. She also got a glimpse of some of the Arrancar from the Battle of Karakura town. A dark woman with long yellow hair and a tall man were in the operating room next to hers. Captain Unohana was tending to them, she said that they had helped them and so deserved to be healed.

There were so many that the time bled together. By the time she went to find Orihime it was already dark. The girl wasn't on the seat where she had left her, she'd expected that. What she hadn't expected was to find the exhausted girl in one of the intensive care wards sitting beside a bed with the dome of her power glowing in the fading light. A blond man sat beside her leaning heavily on the chair, his eyes so intent on the woman in the bed that he didn't react when she entered.

"Orhime what are you doing?"

"Healing Hiyori, Shinji asked me to." The blond man looked up at the mention of his name.

"Something wrong with that?" he asked, his words a challenge

"Yes," Isane replied "Orihime is in no condition to be healing, she's worn herself out already and if she keeps on like this she'll collapse." The man, Shinji looked back to the girl

"It's alright Isane, Shinji, I had a rest for a while before going into the wards, I'm alright." Isane heard the weariness in her voice. Apparently so did Shinji.

"Orihime you didn't tell me that, I found you in the ward on the other floor, you said you could do this."

"I can, I'm tired, yes, but there are so many…" Isane cut her off

"You need to sleep, both of you, by the looks of it. Just get her stable and safe and then lay down, you can even use the beds in this room, but you must rest."

Eventually they agreed and Isane was free to return to her work. She too needed to rest after today but she knew her limits and knew that she had about an hour of work left in her before she reached her limit. All the 4th Division new that tired healers made mistakes and so were well aware of their limits. 'I best make the remaining time count' she thought before hurrying off to the next patient.